NYBKW Community Partners

The Foundation has the honor of working with local partners to enrich the quality of our outreach programs. We would like to give a shout-out to our community partners for their hard work and dedication towards our goals and the betterment of the community.

We appreciate the donation of a blood gas machine in our NICU at North Shore University Hospital. This state-of-the-art equipment allows point-of-care testing of oxygen and carbon dioxide levels and acid-base status of the fragile infants in the intensive care unit. The physical location of the equipment is ideal to allow minute-by-minute measurements and rapid turnaround in the sickest infants.

We really wanted to avoid having any anesthesia. My wife made the appointment here so we could have Child Life care and the movie goggles. Without these tools there is no way my daughter could have gotten through drinking the contrast, having an IV and staying still for the 45-minute procedure. And it wasn’t scary at all. In fact, she said, ‘I liked watching the movie for my pictures.’